Paul2 |
4th June 2022 11:24 AM |
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs
(Post 13825393)
From your link:
"Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) just reacted to Trump Advisor Peter Navarro’s indictment: “If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you!”
Damn Democrats and their witch hunts for people committing crimes!
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The ultimate problem with Gohmert's statement is not (just) that it's idiotic, it's horribly nefarious. Him getting away with saying that destroys any impulse toward critical thinking and evaluating what a politician says, rather than just sucking it down because the pol is part of your tribe. It gets the tribe to accept anything. The more idiotic, the better, because then the tribe is even more firmly in your grasp, and you can do what you want and say what you want with no fear of challenge.
It's similar to how Trump's firehose of lies destroyed a common sense of truth.
We need to focus less on the idiocy of these statements, lies, etc., and more on the political rot they create.
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